Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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